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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alsatian-born Conductor Munch no longer really had to tell his musicians to relax. In eleven weeks as their first new conductor in 25 years, his musicians were freer of tension than they had been for years. In his first speech to them he had vowed, in his painful English, to do his best to maintain the high standards of the Boston. He also hoped "there will be joy." Forthwith, friendly "Charry" Munch (pronounced Moonsh) won their respect as a musician, and their love and obedience as a man. This week, as he rehearsed his 105 musicians for his eighth...
Handsome Alfonso VIII of Castile was married to a haughty English princess named Eleanor of Aquitaine (sister of Richard the Lionhearted), but he tired of her and ran off to Toledo with his darkly lovely Jewish mistress. The love story lasted for seven years, and then the mistress was poisoned by Eleanor's agents. Alfonso, gnawed by both a guilty conscience and a dark suspicion that he was next on the poisoners' list, went home to Eleanor and atonement. Last week, almost 800 years later, the fruits of Alfonso's atonement were providing Spanish archeologists and medieval...
...Keen's English Chop House in Manhattan introduced the "Viand Visualizer," a refinement of the old-fashioned stereoscope. Instead of a menu, the customer gets the visualizer and a bunch of slides, picks himself a three-dimensional, "Technicolored" meal...
...their subjects. Others ranged from worthy-solid (Historian Samuel Flagg Bemis' authoritative but somewhat unwieldy career study of John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy} to fascinating (Richard Aldington's The Strange Life of Charles Waterton, an en gaging story of an English eccentric...
...recently put it into storage and purchased a 1928 Rolls-Royce. Since buying the English car a month ago, Osgood has had it in Byrd's Garage in Cambridge. As his roommate explains the situation, "It's not that there's anything wrong with it. It's just that Mr. Byrd likes Rolls-Royces and we can't get the damn thing away from...